Priorities
Protect Residential Neighborhoods
Irving must protect its single-family homeowners from the encroachments of high-density housing. A financially stable city is generally comprised of 60% homeowners. Irving is at 37%. We need to protect the personal investments homeowners have made to their homes, their neighborhoods and our city. High-density construction should be supported where it makes sense, but not to the detriment of our single-family homeowners.
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Support Police
& Firefighters
Irving has always prided itself in having some of the finest first responders in the State. Our residents and businesses know they will receive immediate and competent care in the event of an emergency. We must continue our commitment to our police and fire to provide them the best resources and compensation so that they can perform their jobs and be secure in their positions. I support the efforts of our council members who are working to increase the level of pay of our first responders.
Urban Center and
Las Colinas
This is the economic engine of our city. All of Irving benefits from the vitality of the Urban Center and Las Colinas through the tax revenues generated here. The success of city leaders, the Las Colinas Association, and the Chamber of Commerce in recruiting new businesses to Irving relies upon having a sound infrastructure in place. Having served as Chair of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 1 from 2012 to 2018, I ensured DCURD was adequately funded to maintain the waterways in the Urban Center. We funded public structures intrinsic to the Music Factory. We also secured funding for the Levy Event Plaza, so that our residents would have a public, green space on Lake Carolyn to enjoy festivals and fireworks!
Smart Planning
The City has two tremendous opportunities to greatly enhance the quality of life for its citizens - the former sites of Texas Stadium and Exxon headquarters. Savvy and experienced city leaders are needed to ensure that what comes into Irving is beneficial not just for the developers but also for our residents. Destination sites with added retail, housing and recreational offerings will serve as a catalyst for economic growth in Irving. Consumers will patronize our businesses and increase our tax base. The revenues can provide more funding for our parks, recreation centers, libraries, arts centers, police and firefighters.
Roads
The first role of local government is to fix the roads! As the Chair of the 2019 Bond Commission, I heard of the many needs to improve and expand our streets. Through our work, a bond package that included $207.8 million in funding for streets, was presented to the voters and approved in May of 2021. In addition to this funding, the City implemented its “Road to the Future” program to fund the rehabilitation of Irving streets, along with sidewalks, curbs, water mains and sewers. The first phase of this program ran from 2017 to 2022. The next phase started in 2023 and is scheduled to be completed in 2027. Infrastructure projects of this magnitude are not without their challenges and so I will work with city staff to make sure the completion of this project is done in the least disruptive way possible.
School Choice
One size does not fit all. All too often, young families in Irving who want additional educational options are forced to move to surrounding communities. Providing alternative public school options allows families to remain in Irving while meeting the unique educational needs of their children. High-performing charter schools like North Hills Prep and Great Hearts Irving, along with the Gifted and Talented programs within Irving ISD, provide these options for some families, but we need more choices for our Irving students. I will use the office to recruit academically rigorous charter schools to Irving.
Libraries
Our libraries serve as an educational resource to enrich the lives of our residents. They should not be a place where children are exposed to pornographic material and subjected to indoctrination by progressive idealogues. Our libraries have policies that bar obscenity from their computers, but these same prohibitions do not apply to printed material, even in the children’s section. Obscenity is obscenity whether digitalized or on paper, and both forms are just as pernicious. I will join the efforts of the current council members who are working to return our libraries to a safe place for our citizens and their families.
Homelessness
As a longtime resident of Irving, I have seen a significant increase in the homelessness in our community. We as a city need to seek solutions that both meet the needs of the homeless and addresses the concerns of the residents. Irving has a number of tremendously successful non-profits working tirelessly to provide food, clothing and emergency shelter, but neither Irving nor any other suburb in the Metroplex is equipped to offer long-term shelter solutions in a fiscally responsible way. Dallas and Fort Worth, however, have the funding, resources and infrastructure to do just that. On council, I will help to direct Federal grant monies to our existing non-profits.
Trash Collection
The City's recent change in the trash pick-up schedule has affected all of us. We are fortunate to live in a city that has historically provided its residents with first-rate municipal services. Among those services has been twice per week trash pick-up of garbage bags left at the curb. The Covid crisis, however, has presented unforeseen economic and personnel challenges in all of its departments. Making the difficult decision to temporarily reduce the trash pick-up schedule to once per week, while a burden to many, provided a manageable solution. Other cities, who did not make such an adjustment, saw trash accumulate for weeks on end.​I support returning to twice-per-week trash pick-up of garbage bags when it makes sense economically. The City made a sound and practical decision in response to a crisis. They are also actively working to remedy the staffing issue by providing in-house CDL training to increase the number of available CDL drivers. (I do think that better communication from the City about their decision could have avoided much of the public resentment.)
Irving must continue its practice of being economically prudent. We should not succumb to a momentary crisis by creating a long-term impediment to the City's operations and pay structure. We need to examine what the consequences might be for paying exorbitant salaries for employees in just one department. Will that result in a demand for pay increases in all of its departments? What would that mean for the City's budget in the years ahead. I look forward to answering these questions if elected to the City Council.
